We the warm temps reaching for the sky so will be these cool season crops…as in bolting. Y’all can’t say I didn’t warn you about a back to back pickup…This is the week we need our shareholders back on the farm. Just to entice you though our strawberries are at their peak of perfection…and they are yours to take home. Here is the pickup schedule for this week. Please post on our facebook page if you would like the mid-week pickup time. Thanks, Peggy
Thursday 4-6 pm
Saturday 9-12





The weather this spring as been crazy, March too cold, April too warm we haven’t had much in the way of good farming weather. We are running about 3 weeks behind were we have been in previous springs in crops ready or planting. We normally have our CSA gathering in end of April with your first pickup. This spring we will have to schedule it for early May.
It is that time of year again when we open our spring & summer CSA for our shareholders to sign up. We are working hard to get our new website up and I will be so excited to see it up and running. But for now this is what I am working with:)
Okay, it is clear for those of you that have visited the farm’s blog before that I am playing around with the design. I have always designed our farm’s website and my friend Anna designed the blog for me. Last summer I switched from a pc to a new mac computer and well…my web designing days are behind me until I learn a new system and how to design without my old faithful frontage program to do the hard work for me. I thought iweb would be the ticket but Apple thought better and took it off the market…something about they don’t make any money with people designing their own website…whatever:) Anyway I am leaning toward bring the farm’s website and blog together on a WordPress platform making it easier for me to keep the site current and updated even when I travel. Which was a big draw-back with the website being a HTML only site anyway. To update and change the site you have to go into the whole site…and times have changed. So I have two choices and I intend on using them both. Hire a good WordPress designer…and work along side them designing the new site. I don’t like not having ….here we go the magic word “control” or knowledge when it comes to designing our new site. If I want to change something I want to know how to do it myself. So please excuse our website mess for a while it will take some time to get everything up and running. The farm’s site is still as is..and will remain that way until we have the new site ready. This blog is my playground learning CSS coding and all that bah bah geeky talk. With that said it might be fun to check back and see the progress..or mess:)


Welcome to The Female Farmer! Life on a 38 acre organic farm...it's not always banjo's and butterflies out here on the farm, People!
Summertime!
Okay, So I will admit I am a spring season person…I love everything about spring time. It all feels new and fresh and wonderful. The heat starts kicking in and that summer sun takes over my days…making my job as a farm a lot less enjoyable. But that is all part of it and friends the summer heat is steadily rising out there where the wild thangs grow. This weekend we will be seeing the last of the lettuces and the salad greens in our CSA baskets and at the market. June is a transitional month for crops with the cool season produce ending and the warm season crops coming on. This week we will be harvesting swiss chard and sugar snap peas. These are one of my favorite crops to grow mostly because I get to snack on them while I and working out in the field.
Sugar snap peas are wonderful to eat raw. You can toss them into salads pod and all. You don’t need to shell these type of peas and they are really good lightly steamed as well. The kids like them for their sweet taste and yes they are healthy too:)
Another fresh harvest this week at the market and in our CSA is Swiss Chard. I tend to think of this wonderful large leaf green as the spinach of warm weather. It is in the beet family and very mild in taste. Just a quick sauté and it’s ready. By all mean chop up the stem as well it has great texture and taste great too.
The flowers are beginning to bud out and some are blooming but we are still a week or so away from any real showing in the flower department but once they do start it is an amazing sight for the next few months.
We are a couple of weeks away from our blackberries being ready and I will tell you I can’t wait. It looks like a bumper crop this year on the blackberry patch. There are buds all over the plants. This week we are sowing more tomatoes and squash and beans and still even more flowers. Although the days are getting hotter the work doesn’t stop…but that must be why God made good cold creeks to cool off in:)
CSA News & Update
This Saturday is a pickup date please remember to bring your baskets back to the farm we are running short.
For those that would like to cut an extra bag of lettuce and kale for your baskets you are welcome to. Just asked Jane for an extra bag and head on out to the field and help your self.
Market 9am.
The last of the Strawberry/Rhubarb pies…freshly baked and delicious!
Brown butter & Banana muffins
Strawberry lemonade muffins
Lavender Short bread cookies…OMG these are to die for! Made with our lavender and our own freshly churned sweet cream butter!